WALTER You tired, ain't you? Tired of everything. Me, the boy, the way we live- this beat-up hole- everything. (32)
The character that is most trapped in Raisin in the Sun, is most likely walter, although the others are not far behind. Walter from the very first scene converses openly about his content in his job, and living in mediocrity. He has a dream because of the all he sees around his is people assimilating with the life they have been handed, not changing it. He finds an opportunity to dream, and like with most dreams, he does not think it thoroughly through. Like Beneatha in her failed activities, walter rushes in to this far greater business transaction based solely on the fact that he needs a better life apart from this suffocating apartment. This entrapment lead him to abandon the apartment for the majority of his time there. He was either drinking, or at "work". When he was at home, his friends followed his, that were characterized as people unsuited to go into business with. Walter might have seen this if he felt he had more time.
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